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Titled "Esteemsters", the episode established Daria and her family's move from fictional Highland, the setting of Beavis and Butt-Head, to the new series' equally fictional locale of Lawndale. The first episode of Daria aired on March 3, 1997, roughly nine months before Beavis and Butt-Head ended its original run.
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But after show staff argued that college students don't really watch much television, MTV approved a series order of 13 episodes both Eichler and Lewis were signed onto the series as executive producers. A fact that bothered MTV initially, as they felt their core audience at the time was instead 18-to-24 year olds. Among 4 other animated pilots pitched to the channel, Daria performed the strongest in focus groups, especially among middle school-aged participants. In 1995, a five-minute pilot, "Sealed with a Kick", was created by Eichler and Beavis and Butt-Head staffer Susie Lewis (although written by Sam Johnson and Chris Marcil). During production of Beavis and Butt-Head 's final seasons, MTV representatives, wanting to bring in a higher female demographic to the channel, approached story editor Glenn Eichler, offering a spin-off series for Daria. Sedelmaier Productions during Beavis and Butt-Head's first season. Daria's original design was created by Bill Peckmann while working for J.J. created Daria's character because we wanted a smart female who could serve as the foil". MTV senior vice president and creative director Abby Terkuhle explained that when that show "became successful, we. Daria Morgendorffer, 16 and cursed with a functioning brain, has the misfortune to see high school, her family, and her life for exactly what they are and the temerity to comment on it." History ĭaria Morgendorffer, the show's title character and protagonist, first appeared on MTV as a recurring character in Mike Judge's Beavis and Butt-Head.

In The New York Times, the protagonist was described as "a blend of Dorothy Parker, Fran Lebowitz, and Janeane Garofalo, wearing Carrie Donovan's glasses. For comedic and illustrative purposes, the show's depiction of suburban American life was a deliberately exaggerated one. They could have lived in Pennsylvania near the Main Line, though". In a 2005 interview, series co-creator Glenn Eichler described the otherwise unspecified locale as "a mid-Atlantic suburb, outside somewhere like Baltimore or Washington, D.C. The plots of Daria largely concern a juxtaposition between the central character's jaded, sardonic cynicism and the values/preoccupations of her suburban American hometown of Lawndale.
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The emotional and comedic turmoil among Jane, Tom, and Daria was the centerpiece of the TV movie Is It Fall Yet?, and the relationship between Tom and Daria fueled several of season five's plotlines. Though Daria is hesitant to accept Tom at first, fearing she will lose her best friend, she and Tom find themselves becoming closer, culminating in a kiss in the season finale.

The dynamics among the two lead characters changed during season four, when Jane began a relationship with Tom Sloane.
The principal location used for the show (outside of the Morgendorffer home) is Lawndale High School, a public-education institution filled with colorful and dysfunctional characters. It is set during Daria's high-school years and ends with her graduation and acceptance into college. As the show's eponymous protagonist, Daria appears in most scenes with her immediate family (mother Helen, father Jake, and younger sister Quinn) and/or Jane.
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The show is set in the fictional suburban American town of Lawndale and is a satire of high school life, full of allusions to and criticisms of popular culture and social classes. The series focuses on Daria Morgendorffer (voiced by Tracy Grandstaff), a smart, acerbic, somewhat misanthropic/ Diogenean teenage girl who, along with her best friend, aspiring artist Jane Lane, observes the world around her. In June 2020, Comedy Central announced it had picked up the spinoff series along with Beavis and Butthead. The network characterized the series as the first in multiple projected Daria animated spinoffs. In June 2019, MTV announced a new Daria animated spin-off series, Jodie (originally Daria & Jodie), with actress Tracee Ellis Ross voicing the titular character and serving as an executive producer. Although Judge gave his blessing to release the character to allow her to appear in the spin-off, he had no involvement in the production of Daria himself, as he was busy working on King of the Hill. It is a spin-off of Mike Judge's earlier animated series, Beavis and Butt-Head, in which Daria appeared as a recurring character. Daria is an American adult animated sitcom created by Glenn Eichler and Susie Lewis Lynn.
